4K, "Faster 4G": Is This LG's Smartphone Weapon?

LG's new Optimus G will house quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 - the "most advanced mobile chipset" in the industry, it announced yesterday.

LG says its next G series (likely to be Optimus G2) with Snapdragon 800 "redefines the smartphone experience" with potent performance, graphics (new Adreno 330 GPU ) and battery life.

The potent chip also has next gen 4K abilities will also video capture, playback and display in Ultra HD (four times the resolution of 1080p Full HD),4G LTE 'Advanced Carrier Aggregation' technology making web speeds "even faster "and less latency.

LG's Mobile boss said the move was a "significant step forward in the mobile experience."

"With a powerful combination of LG's core smartphone technologies and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, we are taking a significant step forward in the mobile experience," said Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of LG Mobile Communications.

"The result of this collaboration will in many ways be the industry's best smartphone, by which all other devices will be measured."

. Enhanced aSMP (asynchronous Symmetric Multiprocessing) architecture for dynamic power sensing and control for peak performance per core and improved battery life without the use of specialized cores;